Shoestring-holder



(No Model.)

H. T. SMALL. SHOBSTRING HOLDER.

No. 594,294. Patented Nov. 23, 1897.

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HENDERSON T. SMALL, OF CHANUTE, KANSAS.

SHOESTRING=HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 594,294., dated November 23, 1897. Application filed December 7,1896. Serial No. 614,779. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENDERSON T. SMALL, of Ohanute, in the county of Neosho and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Shoestring-Holders,of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in shoestring-holders, and has for an object to provide a simple construction which may be easily applied to a cabinet or other support and which will operate efficiently to secure a number of strings in such manner as to permit the ready removal of any one of such strings without displacing or disarrangin g the others.

The invention consists in certain novel construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side View of my improved holder With a string in place. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the bracket, the pressingband being removed; and Fig. 4 illustrates a form of bracket bent from wire.

The support A is preferably a bracket, as shown, having suitable means whereby it may be secured to acabinet or othersuitable framing. This support has an edge or portion B, on which the string is supported, and has below such supporting edge a contact portion 0, against one or both surfaces of which the string is pressed by the pressure-strip hereinafter described. In the construction shown the pressure-strip is made flexible and elastic, being preferably a rubber or similar elastic band D, sprung at its ends into seats E at the opposite ends of the contact surface or portion,as shown in Fig.1. VVh en the bracket is cast, it may be'preferred to form the inner seat by slitting from the lower edge of the bracket, forming a thin tongue e at the rear of such seat, which may, if desired, be pressed inward against the band to clamp the same to the bracket, the outer seat being notched, as shown.

It ismanifest that the bracket may be cast, as shown in Fig. 1, or bent from wire, as shown in Fig. 4. In the latter construction the wire is so bent as to form the seats for the pressure-band, which may be readily applied and removed from either this construction or that shown in Fig. 1, as willbe readily understood.

In both forms of bracket the fastening means is shown as a screw-shank F, projecting from the rear edge of the bracket, this construction being preferred because of the ease with which the bracket may thereby be secured to a suitable support.

the strings upon the holder cannot slip, thuspermitting any one string to be removed without displacing the others.

The band of rubber maybe applied subsequent to the application of the strings to the bracket, or, if desired, after such strings have been applied, and being easily applied and removed these bands may be conveniently replaced when worn or broken. In practice the brackets may be manufactured and sold and the band applied by the purchaser, or the bracket may be placed upon the market with the band in place, as may best suit the demands of the trade.

' Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A shoestring holder, composed of the bracket having at one end a screw-shank, provided with a longitudinally-extended contact-surface, having seats at the ends of such surface, and provided with an elastic band sprung into such seats all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. Ashoestring-holder comprising abracket over the upper edge of which the strings may be hung and along the opposite edges of which the said strings may hang, suchbracket being provided with a contact-surface and with seats at the opposite ends thereof and the elastic band sprung into said seats and holding the strings substantially as shown and described.

HENDERSON T. SMALL.

Witnesses:

B. F. SHINN, J. B. E. GATES. 

